Potomac River

...communication, culture and technology program, are usually the only two conversing at their three-level contemporary house near the Potomac River. They moved in 1995 to this woodsy location, the place they call "the house that the book...

In this article: Deborah Tannen, Georgetown University, Scrambled eggs, Random House, and Boynton Beach

KEARNEYSVILLE, W.VA. -- What's the problem with the Potomac River -- and could whatever it is spell problems for those of us who drink its water? In 2003, scientists discovered something startling in the Potomac, from which at least 3...

In this article: Hormone, Atrazine, EPA, West Virginia, Fiscal year, Coal, and Smallmouth bass

Maryland now has seven toll facilities. None is anywhere close to Montgomery County. Except for one, the U.S. 301 bridge over the Potomac River, they are all located entirely or partly in the Baltimore region. (The Bay Bridge, the two...

In this article: Revenue, Maryland, Montgomery County, Baltimore, and Sheila Dixon

...executive director of the watershed association. The St. Mary's and Wicomico rivers are considered to be the most degraded of lower Potomac River tributaries, according to a 2008 report by the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River...

In this article: St. Mary's River, Oxygen, St. Mary's County, and Lexington Park

...a judge to find out whether he would have to go to prison, he walked among the graves of old friends and relatives not far from where the Potomac River empties into the Chesapeake Bay. The small Methodist cemetery here is full of watermen...

In this article: Defendant, Maryland, Chesapeake Bay, Methodist, Striped bass, and Poaching

...8 inches. When I was recently ordered to bring home a dinner, however, I did what everyone who frequents the waters of the upper tidal Potomac can easily do. This also applies to those who do not have a boat but can find shoreline access in...

In this article: Yellow perch, White perch, Potomac, Potato, E-mail, The Washington Times, Quantico Creek, and Mattawoman Creek

...rivers are considered to be the most degraded of lower Potomac tributaries, according to a 2008 report by the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, Lewis said. Robert Paul, biology professor and director of the St. Mary's River...

In this article: St. Mary's River, Oxygen, St. Mary, St. Mary's County, and Potomac

...can be yours. The 205-year-old building in the historic Old Town district of Alexandria, Va., was built in 1804 as the Bank of the Potomac. It became the headquarters for Pierpont and the Restored Government of Virginia, also known as...

In this article: Francis H. Pierpont, West Virginia, Alexandria, Washington, D.C, Potomac, Wheeling, Civil War, and Baltimore & Ohio Railroad

...you know they need ... some exercise to focus," Mrs. Obama said. "If you have a dog, you know that." Alexandria is just across the Potomac River from the White House. Students did not learn until this morning that the first lady would be...

In this article: Michelle Obama, Virginia, White House, Tom Vilsack, Alexandria, Banana, and Dog

Pollutants that mimic natural hormones have created a "toxic stew' in the Potomac River, altering the sexual development and the immune systems of fish, a local nonprofit warned in a report Wednesday. In its third annual "State of the...

In this article: Hormone, Shenandoah River, Potomac, Waste, Pesticides, Pollutants, and Washington